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SpaceX's Falcon 9 first-stage booster breaks the record on its 16th flight
Jul 11, 2023 (SPX)
SpaceX's Starlink Group mission 6-5 launched 22 Starlink onboard the Falcon 9. This is the fifth launch into a new orbital shell for SpaceX's second-generation ...
PLD Space wins the aerospace public-private partnership contract promoted by Spanish Government to develop a micro launcher
Jul 11, 2023 (SPX)
PLD Space comes to PERTE with most of its technological partners and with strategic supply agreements, which strengthens the project and allows speeding up its ...
Southern Launch reveals new logo and branding
Jul 11, 2023 (SPX)
Southern Launch CEO Lloyd Damp says, 'Our new logo marks the next chapter for Southern Launch. It signifies the growth we have had as a company over the past 5 ...
Orbex expands facilities in preparation for UK Mainland's First Vertical Rocket Launch
Jul 11, 2023 (SPX)
The company is adding an extra 1,500 square metres of factory and office space to its existing 4,750 square metre estate in Forres, Scotland and Copenhagen, Den...
Canadian student rocketry group reaches new heights with Spaceport Nova Scotia's first launch
Jul 07, 2023 (SPX)
Arbalest Rocketry, a rocketry team from Ontario's York University, made the most of a Launch Canada initiated opportunity to prepare for and execute a sub-orbit...
A space rocket hotter than the Sun
Jul 06, 2023 (SPX)
The 8-metre fusion chamber is being assembled in Bletchley, England and when fired in 2027, will temporarily become the hottest place in the solar system creati...
Final Ariane 5 blasts off amid Europe rocket crisis
Jul 06, 2023 (AFP)
Faced with soaring global competition, the continent has unexpectedly found itself without a way to independently launch heavy missions into space due to delays...
Ariane 5 bows out in style: dual payloads, perfect delivery
Jul 06, 2023 (ESA)
Flight VA261 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 22:00 UTC 5 July 2023/00:00 6 July CEST (19:00 local time). This mission lasted about 33 min...
Unfavourable weather delays final Ariane 5 launch
Jul 04, 2023 (AFP)
The 117th and final flight of an Ariane 5 rocket, after 27 years of launches, had been due to take off between 2130 and 2305 GMT from Europe's spaceport in Kour...
ISRO terminates hot test for semi-cryogenic engine midway
Jul 04, 2023 (SPX)
On July 1, 2023, ISRO revealed that it had initiated the inaugural hot test on an intermediate configuration of the semi-cryogenic engine, designated as Power H...
Chinese private space company to launch latest rocket in 2024
Jul 04, 2023 (SPX)
As reported in an exclusive interview with China Daily, Kang Yonglai, founder and chairman of Space Pioneer, disclosed the timeline for the TL 3's progress. Ini...
Flight software for Artemis II meets testing checkpoint
Jul 01, 2023 (SPX)
When NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) launches NASA's Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft, it will produce more than 8.8 million pounds of thrust. The S...
SpaceX Dragon begins return to Earth with experiments, samples from ISS
Jun 29, 2023 (UPI)
The spacecraft left the ISS's Harmony module at 12:30 p.m. EDT and is set to make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at about 10:30 a.m. o...
Virgin Galactic finally takes its first paying customers to space
Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)
Italian Air Force officers unfurled their nation's flag and peered out windows at the curve of Earth while enjoying a few minutes of weightlessness at 52.9 mile...
Virgin Galactic launches first commercial spaceflight
Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)
Its inaugural customers were a three-member crew from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy, alongside a Virgin Galactic astronaut instru...
After long wait, Virgin Galactic begins commercial spaceflights
Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)
Its first paying customers are a three-member crew from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy, with a fourth seat occupied by a Virgin Ga...
Virginia Tech leads multi-institution research on polymeric solid fuel combustion
Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)
What are the key elements that influence the combustion process? Are there advantages to utilizing solid propellants versus liquid? Simplicity, lower cost, and ...
France tests hypersonic glider for first time
Jun 27, 2023 (AFP)
The speed of HGVs can exceed Mach 5, or 6,000 kilometres per hour (3,730 mph). The technology is being developed or deployed by a small number of countries that...
Spain delays rocket launch until Sept over wildfire risk
Jun 27, 2023 (AFP)
Built by private Spanish startup PLD Space, the rocket had initially been scheduled for take-off from El Arenosillo, a coastal military base in the southwestern...
Ariane 6 progress toward inaugural flight: ArianeGroup, Les Mureaux, France
Jun 27, 2023 (ESA)
Ariane 6 builds on the heritage of its hugely successful predecessor, Ariane 5. But it will lift more payload at less cost and fly more often, to give Europe on...
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